real tired from today's work so i'll keep it short.

Today i started work at hong han's dad's company, located in aljuned as a light industry. I know what you are thinking and NO. I was NOT working in a factory along an assembly line.
My work was relatively mixed, which included the production on new panadol and strepsils shelves cum dispenser. Lotsa D&T work though, where sanding of acrylic took up like 30 % of the workload. Then we passed it to a guy who went on to stick the pieces of plastic together and use a cool mini-flame torch (flame size 1cm by 0.3mm) to touch up on the edges. The 'we' included hong han, yi hong, a young sec 2 girl which i just met and me.(forgot her name but i know it starts with a J)

We proceeded with pasting the stickers on the acrylic which was quite a challenge cause it was important to avoid making any bubbles b/w the sticker and the plastic. Made about 4-6. It does seem very little in a span of about an hour. Yep, but one has to consider the accuracy needed and the use of penknives to trim and cut every bit of extra sticker.(even an excess of 0.05 mm of it could still be removed)

After that, about 6 plus, we made the stands to hold the panadol dispensers. about 400 was needed. Instead of a drop of pdn due to weariness, surprisingly, we got the hang of it and made like 100 before 9. quite a miracle to build the stands. no idea how i can express it in words but it took alot outta me.

Pay was 5/hr. low i know.as what i earned in 9 hrs for today, could be easily acheived by tuitioning for 2 hrs. Lucky no work tomorrow. anyone has a better part time job?

santacantfly :(; 12:12 AM (:

YAY!!! finally managed to convince my parents to get me an MP3 player. (Quite a surprise cause I just asked and they said ok quite directly) Yep, its a Zen v. How cool is that? Pity it wasn't a V plus so i've got no radio or video to view in my player. Also, it was on student's special, at only 169 from creative. Black and green, quite a nice colour combination, though i still prefer the white and green one. Wonder how it could be out of stock on the morning of the second day of sales. Maybe I'm already lucky to even get one at such a price.

On that sat morning, as i went with my parents buying it, saw kids like P5 to sec 2 kids all buying the same item... Seems like i was the only one who did not bother about buying the extravagant item classified as a 'want'. Guess i could live with that, though its not really nice to live so far apart from the world.
Had 1.888Gb inside after i checked. and they call it 2 Gig?? They must be joking! squandering at least the spaces of 5 songs.

Mum's told me to stop looking for jobs, but to conc on Jc work. Requesting me to improve my languages by reading newspapers almost every other day. Magazine articles would do too. haha She's probably over-enthusiastic. Or is it just me being over-lazy with my life?

Anyone has any albums which i can borrow? i still have about 1.4 Gb of space in my Zen V. Those 3 Cds are not enough to fill everything. Good thing too. Anyone for an outing yet? I'm getting bored at home. Cousins are going out for a movie tomorrow at plaza sing. Ohhh I HATE that place. Can't u guys decide to go somewhere else for a movie other than plaza sing? Of ALL places.... I'm getting bored of going there too. Any ideas anyone?

Zhishen

santacantfly :(; 1:21 AM (:

Just got back from Vj. Attended their co practice for today. Really enjoyed myself. Quite a good environment there. However, the songs they played was scary.
When I was initially handed the scores, I was aghast! Not at the difficulty of the scores, but my inability to play them well. Practically lost all my skills after like 6 mths of not playing the erhu. Took me some time to get used to the fingering and stuff. Managed to recover part of my playing style.
If I had gotten it bad, it became WORSE. I was issued another 2 scoresheets. Furthermore, they were issued during practice, where everyone from all sections would be playing under a conductor. Given like 5 min to prac each one on the spot.
Thank god I'd mastered my D and G Majors during sec school. They were not as difficult as the first scoresheet (which had B flat, A, C, F,G and D). Played at least 85% of each through sight-reading.
But I enjoyed the people there. Quite friendly and helpful.(1 reason why its better to be a Victorian in VJ than in VS) Also, the quality of VJCO was almost twice that of VSCO, even though it was halved in numbers.
Really hope I can get to VJ though its a difficult task. At least now I'd be busy on wednesdays and fridays. Something to fill my time during the hols.
Here's a reminder to all O lvl takers. RMB to fill in ur PAE.

Zhishen

santacantfly :(; 4:37 PM (:

Yesterday's celebration for Wai Wan and my birthday was very interesting. Received 2 presents from Jason, Wai Wan and Amos. Thanks if you are reading this.
T'was a day some things became clear, whether friendship was more valued than a girl. And whether some people had the basic respect to honour their agreement over something already properly planned and decided. Turns out not many do.

Irony number 1: Some who'd agreed to watch 007 with us now told us they had watched on friday, and had no intention of watching again, giving a statement that, 'If you want us to watch with you, ok we would.' Obviously I would not force them to watch with me. Then they proceeded to watch Just Friends. Very justified.... and just to point out, the fact that a girl was with them to watched Just Friends did not make them seem 'Just Friends', probably something more. Talk about double irony....

Irony number 2: After we split up to watch different movies, all contact was lost. None of my side received any sms or any form of communication of any kind even though there were 2 B'day boys here. By cross-referencing, we could tell that some people came not because of celebrating our B'day with us, but for some other reason which I'd mentioned above.

Arr enough of ironies. too tired to post. Going out later at 12 again... Another outing, sigh... Oh ya, before i sign off, I just want to apologise to Jason about the conclusions i made about him. K cya around guys.

Zhishen
1030hrs
20/11/2006

santacantfly :(; 9:14 AM (:

Right, 'O' levels are over now so i'm re-opening my blog, and i intend to keep this blog OPENED. My blogskin and songs will be uploaded shortly and you can expect the songs to be pop/rock and mostly made of female singers. (Not that I'm feeling deprived but I really, really can't find much good songs in this genre sung by guys)
Many people complain that exams are very stressed up. but how many ever wonder what it is like to do nothing? That's eactly what I (and many others) are experiencing right now. It is like a 'Ride of your life' -The Veronicas, which could easily demonstrate how time could go by at lightspeed, or snailspeed.
At least this afternoon I managed to have a game of squash with Hong Han (EX-schoolmate/tuitionmate We/ve graduated after all) Lots of runnign involved... tiring, but fun. If any of you wants to play squash (for fun or otherwise) just contact me. I have 2 racquets for our disposal.
Pledeged to run for at least 15min a day (yes I know it seems like a very short time, but it'll gradually increase) and train my muscles. TARGET: ESCAPE the 3 X-tra months in the army due the problems of physical fitness. By next year, I MUST I MUST I MUST!!!!!! be able to do 1 standard pull-up. ok yes, i know that had sounded ridiculous and I'd have guys saying: ' WAH! that 16-yr old kid cannot do even 1 standard pull up arr??!!! Malu seh'. HELLO???!!! is my body yours??? Do you control whatever I can or can't do? Ok, maybe i'm saying too much and this post may get a wee-bit long.
Lol. Still can't forget. During the Social Studies paper, while doing Q2: Was it right that singapore was separated from malaysia? EOY (The question was somthing like that. I can't remember extactly)
Then i started writing. The more i wrote, the more angry i became that Singapore was kicked out of malaysia due to reasons which were unreasonable and demands which were too demanding. The more angry I became, the more i wrote to EMA (explain my ans) which went about in a viscious cycle which i had to break away b4 i broke me neck over the SS paper. My feelings and sentiments were also shared by some of my classmates, who like me, got aggravated as they attempted Q2.
Sometimes, The pressure by almost everyone around me nearly made me do mistakes, which would have put me out of the top of the C-F graph. One of such included the history elective paper. The timing was supposed to be 2.30 p.m. As it was expressed in military form (don't exactly know the term), 1430hrs, I mis-read and believed that the paper would start at 4.30 pm. Words cannot describe the shock i received when i realised at 12.30pm on that very day when my information was corrected. It gave me 2 hrs to study for 5 chapters (a feat i'd say).
Arr its very late now... Glad to have restarted my blog... Cya guys around!

*Ps: Did I mention that it was my birthday today?

Zhishen
19/11/1990
0245hrs

santacantfly :(; 2:18 AM (: